The pricing sticker is all over the instruction leaflet and this is a classic example of how not package your product. . . . → Read More: How Not To Package Your Product
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But much before the advent of custom ROMs on the phones, there has been a thriving community of developers for routers. We have the likes of DDWRT, TOMATO-USB and other custom ROMs for our routers and these have explosively stretched the intended functions of these routers in comparison to the functionality provided by the manufacturer. . . . → Read More: Advantages Of Running Custom ROMs On Your Router 
Bangalore Traffic Police(BTP) have now launched a crowd sourced policing wherein the public can bring to their notice the traffic violations taking place in Bengaluru/Bangalore city! Called as Public Eye, this service has been launched today and is hosted at their website: http://www.bangaloretrafficpolice.gov.in/PublicEye/PublicEyePost.aspx . . . → Read More: Bangalore Police launches Public Eye, Crowdsourced traffic violation reporting 
If you are about to start for the day or returning home from office and often find yourself struck in traffic jams, here is some good news. Bangalore Traffic Police in association with GupShup have launched (was operational long time, stalled and again working fine after recent SMS cap/day) SMS or text based alerts that will keep you posted on traffic jams and other traffic related activities. Here is how you can subscribe to alerts on your phone: send an SMS “JOIN BTP” to 09219592195 . . . → Read More: Get Real Time Traffic Alerts via SMS 
Spotted this sometime back on one of the Axis Bank’s ATM machines in Bangalore. Any clues on what could be a demo software on a Bank’s ATM machine? It says License expired! . . . → Read More: What is this Demo Software running on ATM? 
Some folks at Flipkart decided to piggyback on the “Crossword Bookstore” term and bid for this key word at Google’s Adwords. Did Flipkart really need to do this? I don’t think so and I feel this is a case of Blackhat SEO. So what prompted Flipkart to do this? Only they can answer but the folks at Flipkart team who bid for this keyword must have surely known what they were doing and the eventual consequences (see the update). Going by the similar instances it appears many brands do indulge in such practices and deactivate such “gray” or unethical paid listings upon notice by the victims! . . . → Read More: Why Flipkart Is Wrong To Hijack Crossword’s Name Using Sponsored Ads 
Today, I saw an ex-colleague of mine join another company as manager. So I thought of sending him a congratulatory message and also have few casual interaction. I just clicked on the “send message” link under the update and boy! the following happened. A neatly worded message including the subject was automatically generated in a pop-up window. For a second I was zapped but then after reading it, it felt pretty happy! Truly a very intuitive feature by LinkedIn, almost perfect, but only my signature was missing. . . . → Read More: LinkedIn’s Auto-generated Congratulatory Message 
Very often we put the plastic containers in the microwave without even realizing if they are microwavable or not! This article aims to educate users whether or not their plastic containers are microwave safe. . . . → Read More: Is This Plastic Container Microwave Safe? |
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